Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Alone in Space: A Collection by Tillie Walden

8 reviews

beccaand's review

adventurous emotional reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Blood, and Animal death

Moderate: Lesbophobia, Confinement, Homophobia, and Car accident

Minor: Bullying

rainbowrocky's review

dark reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

Not my favorite collection of comics. I found The End of Summer difficult to follow because everyone looked the same. It was difficult to tell them all apart so I was confused with who was doing what most of the story.

The small comics from Walden’s youth were a cute inclusion. You can really see her development as an artist as time goes on and she experiments more. I think my favorite was In The Palm Of Your Hand—what an interesting and incredibly sapphic concept. I would love to be shown the world by a goddess lol.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Medical content, Chronic illness, Car accident, Child abuse, Child death, Gore, and Animal death

Moderate: Confinement, Death of parent, Infidelity, Lesbophobia, Suicide, Incest, Rape, Toxic relationship, and Misogyny

Minor: War, Bullying, Injury/Injury detail, and Pregnancy

robinks's review

adventurous reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.25

I was glad that the collection started with The End of Summer because that one was my least favorite of the three longer comics. I Love This Part and A City Inside were both so good. I also liked getting to look at Walden’s earlier works and learning about her artistic influences.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Animal death, Blood, and Car accident

Moderate: Violence, Death, and Confinement

Minor: Bullying, Incest, Rape, Lesbophobia, and Sexual assault

whatisjordyreading's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Ableism, Animal death, Car accident, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Incest, Murder, Child death, Chronic illness, Forced institutionalization, Death, and Gore

Moderate: Lesbophobia, Physical abuse, Mental illness, Homophobia, and Misogyny

nodogsonthemoon's review

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Animal death, Blood, Car accident, Child death, and Lesbophobia

brogan7's review

adventurous dark emotional relaxing sad medium-paced

3.75

This is a book of collected works of Tillie Walden, so feels essentially like a short story collection.
I started reading Tillie Walden with Spinning, which is still, I think, her most accessible and story-driven work.
Her art is so, so amazing and the pieces in Alone in Space are no exception.  As in some of her other work (On a Sunbeam and Are you listening), the dreamlike quality of the work seems more important to her than having the reader understand exactly what even happened in the story. 

In this collection, I particularly liked The end of summer (though not clear on what happened, or in some parts, why it happened) and Glare (one of her earliest works).

I guess one of the reasons I don't like the ambiguity is that it blunts the emotional effect of the events in the stories--which may be exactly why she does it--it's unsettling with art that is so precise, at times photographic, to feel like the story is not fully filled in.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Incest, Blood, Animal death, Car accident, Child death, and Confinement

readingwithkt's review

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Blood

Moderate: Child abuse, Car accident, and Pregnancy

Minor: Sexual violence and Murder

rainbowshelves's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death

Moderate: Blood, Rape, Incest, Death, Car accident, Child death, Confinement, Medical content, and Death of parent